13 hours ago
Atlanta, GA, USA or Los Angeles, CA, USASenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$128k - $157k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own major Mission Management System capabilities from architecture through integration, testing, and operational use.
- Design and develop high-performance C++ software for command and control, telemetry, mission workflows, and subsystem coordination.
- Define scalable architectures, interfaces, APIs, protocols, and message schemas.
- Integrate autonomy services, sensors, payloads, radios, tactical datalinks, and third-party systems.
- Build and improve simulation, software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, and system-integration environments.
- Lead design reviews, code reviews, technical trade studies, integration activities, and technical risk mitigation.
- Mentor engineers and establish software architecture and development practices.
- Support ground and flight-test campaigns, including real-time troubleshooting.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of professional software-development experience for Senior-level consideration.
- 10+ years of relevant experience, or an equivalent record of technical leadership and impact, for Principal-level consideration.
- Advanced proficiency with modern C++, including C++17 or newer.
- Experience delivering complex production-quality software and defining architectures, interfaces, protocols, and system boundaries.
- Strong knowledge of concurrency, memory management, software architecture, performance-oriented development, and socket-level network programming.
- Experience with distributed, real-time, embedded, robotic, aerospace, or other hardware-connected systems.
- Experience integrating software with hardware, external services, or independently developed subsystems.
- Preferred experience includes mission systems, command-and-control software, mission planning, ground-control systems, autonomy platforms, operator-facing applications, aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or spacecraft.
- Preferred experience includes RF communications, SATCOM, line-of-sight radios, tactical datalinks, publish/subscribe architectures, middleware, avionics, aircraft networks, telemetry, and command-and-control workflows.
- Preferred experience includes Linux development, fault-tolerant or degraded-mode behaviors, simulation, SIL, HIL, system-integration labs, ground tests, or flight tests.
- Preferred familiarity with DO-178C, ARINC, FACE, OMS/UCI, STANAG, or MIL-STD.
- U.S. citizenship is required; U.S. permanent residents are not eligible for this role.
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid healthcare and pet insurance.
- Stock options, 401(k) retirement plan, and potential year-end bonuses.
- Paid parental leave, 12 federal holidays, unlimited PTO for exempt employees, and accrued PTO for non-exempt employees.
- Weekly paid office lunches and fully stocked breakrooms.
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About Hermeus
Hermeus designs and manufactures high-Mach and hypersonic aircraft for defense and future high-speed transport, selling government-focused flight systems and test programs. The company is privately held, founded in 2018, and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Current efforts include the unmanned Quarterhorse program and engine integration aimed at enabling Mach 5-class flight, with contracts and collaborations with the U.S. Department of Defense.